A critically acclaimed, provocative Canadian play about human trafficking is making a stop in London on a nationwide tour.

She Has A Name, written by Andrew Kooman and directed by Stephen Waldschmidt will be performed at Aeolian Hall Thursday and Friday.

The show is presented by Burnt Thicket Theatre in partnership with Raise Their Voice. A London stop was added due to public demand, said Neil Bousquet, media relations manager for Burnt Thicket.

The play has performed before sold-out audiences in Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Red Deer, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax and the tour is headed west again.

"She Has a Name is a powerful piece of theatre that both thrilled and inspired audiences during our successful world premiere," said director Stephen Waldschmidt in a press release. "We look forward to bringing this timely story to thousands more Canadians from Halifax to Victoria."

The play tells the story about Jason, a Canadian investigator who poses as a 'john' to build a legal case against a brothel trafficking girls into Bangkok. He has to win the trust of a young prostitute, known only as Number 18, and convince her to risk her life to testify.

"She Has A Name will open the eyes of Canadians to the reality that there are millions of innocent victims in the world today who live in these brutal conditions," said Mark Wollenberg, the Western Canadian representative of International Justice Mission Canada, an agency that works overseas to secure justice for victims of human trafficking, in a press release.

The play was inspired by a real-life event -- the discovery, in April 2008, of an abandoned storage container in Thailand containing 121 workers from Burma, 54 of them dead.

"But more importantly, we hope that it will open the hearts of those who attend to become engaged in bringing an end to human trafficking. This play brings the nameless victims of trafficking into our western world and makes them all too close and too real to ever forget. Canadians must see this play."

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IF YOU GO

What: She Has A Name, a play by Andrew Kooman, directed by Stephen Waldschmidt and presented by Burnt Thicket Theatre and Raise Their Voice.

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, with talk-back panel after the Thursday show.

Where: Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St.

Tickets: $22 (per ticket for groups of 10 or more), individual tickets are $27 and are only available online at shehasaname.net